1. Hooray! You have a new baby. A snuggly bundle of squidgy, adorable joy. By day.
2. But as soon as the sun sets, it begins.
3. The crying. Dear god, the crying.
4. Is it caused by trapped wind? By a food intolerance? By the misalignment of the planets? Science doesn't even know.
5. All you know is that someone took away your lovely baby and replaced him with this guy.
6. You just fed and changed him, so he can't be hungry or wet, right?
7. It's not too hot. It's not too cold. But your baby is still crying.
8. By morning you're both in a teary, sleepless, emotional heap on the sofa.
9. Bleary with tiredness, you Google 'symptoms of colic' and get confusing results.
10. It takes you way too long to figure out that colic is common in horses, too.
11. Luckily, everybody has an unsolicited opinion on how to handle colic.
12. You buy a bunch of colic medicines, and they help...a bit.
13. You try some baby massage, and that helps... a bit.
14. You start wearing your baby, and that helps a bit, too.
15. You become a gas-management master.
16. You marvel at the inexplicable calming magic of white noise.
17. But you still occasionally see this face at 4am.
18. By now, though, you're a little more immune to the noise of the crying.
